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Critical Theology, v. 7, no. 3 (Spring 2025)

URL: https://criticaltheology.net/ct-v7-no3/

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Table of contents

  • Don Schweitzer, Introduction
  • Joshua Samuel, Dalits and Postcolonialism: Revisiting and Reclaiming Liberation Theology Politics
  • Ryan Turnbull, Refusing to Sustain the Future: On Providence and the Politics of Refusal
  • Don Schweitzer, A Need for the Sermon on the Mount’s Extreme Language of Love
  • Book Reviews
    • Don Schweitzer, Online Communication and the Crisis of Democracies
      • Jürgen Habermas. A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Deliberative Politics. Hoboken, NJ: Polity Press, 2023. vii + 114 pp.
    • Don Schweitzer, The Relation of Worship to Daily Experience
      • Finding God in a World Come of Age: Karl Rahner and Johann Baptist Metz, edited with a commentary by Roger Haight, SJ, Alfred Pach III, and Amanda Avila Kaminski. New York: Fordham University Press, 2024. v + 129 pp.

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Critical Theology, v. 7, no. 2 (Winter 2025)

URL: https://criticaltheology.net/ct-v7-no2/

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Table of contents

  • Rosemary P. Carbine, Introduction
  • KC Choi, What Is Asian about Asian American Theology? Fiction, Heterogeneity, and Ends
  • Jaisy A. Joseph, The Synodal Church as Leaven and Pilgrim: An Interstitial Epistemology for an Interstitial Church
  • Cristina Lledo Gomez, Believing in the Spirits Is Not ‘Woo Woo’: Christian and Philippine Anitist Belief
  • Tracy Sayuki Tiemeier, Church and State of Exception: Coloniality, Power, and Sexual Abuse
  • Book Review
    • Harold Wells, The Climate Crisis Is a Spiritual Crisis
      • David Suzuki, with co-authors Amanda McConnell, Adrienne Mason, and Ian Hannington. The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature. Vancouver: Greystone Books, 1997, 25th anniversary edition, 2022. xiv + 374pp.

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Critical Theology, v. 7, no. 1 (Fall 2024)

URL: https://criticaltheology.net/ct-v7-no1/

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Table of contents

  • Christine Jamieson, Introduction
  • Fr. Raymond Lafontaine, “Hope Does Not Disappoint”: A Jubilee Reflection on Synodality
  • Marie-France Dion, Incarnating God’s Blessing: Listening to the Past, Committing to the Present, and Building a Future
  • Book Reviews
    • Terry Hawley Reeder, Rhetorical, Symbolic, and Prophetic Practices for a Way Forward
      • Rosemary P. Carbine. Nevertheless, We Persist: A Feminist Public Theology. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2023. 288 pp.
    • Don Schweitzer, A Panorama of Christologies from Around the World
      • Volker Küster. The Many Faces of Jesus Christ: Intercultural Theology, Revised Edition. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2023. xxxvi + 263 pp.

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Critical Theology, v. 6, no. 4 (Summer 2024)

URL: https://criticaltheology.net/ct-v6-no4/

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  • Introduction, Scott Kline
  • “Contrary to the Spirit of Christ”: Canadian Churches and the Abolition of Capital Punishment, The Rev. Dr. James V. Scott, O.C.
  • Why Canada Cared: Canada-Chile Solidarity 1973–1990, Liisa L. North
  • Tactical Civics and the Repentant Remnant: Mobilizing for God and Country, Carmen Celestini
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Critical Theology, v. 6, no. 3 (Spring 2024)

URL: https://criticaltheology.net/ct-v6-no3/

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Table of contents

  • Introduction, Don Schweitzer
  • Right Relations Between Settlers and Indigenous Peoples Must Involve Systems Change and Balancing Power, Doe (Alison) Hoyer and Sarah Augustine
  • “Let Settlers with Ears Listen”, Jean-Pierre Fortin
  • A Theological Assessment of the Canadian Government’s Action Plan for Implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Donald Schweitzer
  • Book Review: Re-centering Class Relations, Organizations, and Power Dynamics in a Socially Conscious Theology, Simon Schweitzer
    • Joerg Rieger. Theology in the Capitalocene: Ecology, Identity, Class, and Solidarity. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2022. ix +, 257 pp.
  • Book Review: Max Weber and the Current Crisis of Democracies, Don Schweitzer
    • Wendy Brown. Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023. 132 pp.

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Critical Theology, v. 6, no. 2 (Winter 2024)

URL: https://criticaltheology.net/ct-v6-no2/

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Table of contents

  • Introduction, Rosemary P. Carbine
  • Letter to Subscribers
  • Recalling Ruether and/as Forging Future Theologies of Women’s Liberation, Rosemary P. Carbine
  • My Tribute to Rosemary Radford Ruether, Pamela K. Brubaker
  • Antisemitism and the Pathology of Christian Theology, Judith Plaskow
  • Post-Ecumenical Christianity, Rosemary Ruether
  • A New Political Consciousness, Rosemary Ruether
  • Book Review: Out of Witnessing Deprivation Emerges a Desire for Solidarity, Don Schweitzer
    • Judith Butler and Frédéric Worms. The Livable and the Unlivable. New York: Fordham University Press, 2023. vii + 81 pp.

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Critical Theology, v. 6, no. 1 (Fall 2023)

URL: https://criticaltheology.net/ct-v6-no1/

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Table of contents

  • Introduction, Christine Jamieson
  • Pope Francis, Synodality, and Christian Unity: Leaning into the Distant Goal of Vatican II, Catherine E. Clifford
  • Ecumenism as Theological Endeavour: Lonergan, Horizons, and Inquiry as Spirit, Elisabeth J. Nicholson
  • Be a Blessing!!!, Marie-France Dion
  • Book Review: Are We Willing to Receive Ecumenism?, Jakob Karl Rinderknecht
    • Paul D. Murray, Gregory, A. Ryan, and Paul Lakeland, editors. Receptive Ecumenism as Transformative Ecclesial Learning: Walking the Way to a Church Re-formed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. xxxv + 539 pp.

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Critical Theology, v. 5, no. 4 (Summer 2023)

URL: https://criticaltheology.net/ct-v5-no4/

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Table of contents

  • Introduction, Scott Kline
  • Agreeing on the Worth of a Life: MAiD and the Logic of Sanctity, Andrew Stumpf
  • Jewish and Catholic Bioethics: My Experience, Yoelit Lipinsky
  • The Way of the Samaritan in Health Care, Scott Kline
  • Book Excerpt: “I Call Myself Riscylla, Child of God, Métis Citizen,” Bishop Riscylla Shaw with Karen A. Hamilton
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Critical Theology, v. 5, no. 3 (Spring 2023)

URL: https://criticaltheology.net/ct-v5-no3/

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Table of contents

  • Introduction, Don Schweitzer
  • Apology, Encounter, and Penitential Pilgrimage, Christine Jamieson
  • Reparations, Religion, and Theology: A Proposal for Perpetual Reconstruction, Joerg Rieger
  • Truth and the Stories We Tell in Dark Times: An Encounter with Hannah Arendt, Scott Kline
  • Salvaging a Pneumatological Insight from Hegel’s Philosophy of History, Don Schweitzer
  • Book Review: Post–World War II Social Christianity and Its Relevance to Pope Francis’ Criticism of NATO, Toby Terrar
    • Jean Boulier. I Was a Red Priest: Memories and Testimonials. New York: Red Star-CWPublisher, 2022. 724 pp.
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Critical Theology, v. 5, no. 2 (Winter 2023)

URL: https://criticaltheology.net/ct-v5-no2/

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Table of contents

  • Introduction, Rosemary P. Carbine
  • Puerto Rico and the Epiphany Insurrection: White Supremacy and the Task of Decolonial Theology, Teresa Delgado
  • Redeeming the Commons of Creation: Interreligious, Decolonial, and Ecofeminist Theological Yearnings for the Kin-dom of God, Elizabeth O’Donnell Gandolfo
  • Book Review: Democracies in Crisis, Don Schweitzer
    • Craig Calhoun, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, and Charles Taylor. Degenerations of Democracy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. 353 pp.